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Symphonies of requiem and revolution

Jaime Martin conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in three politically charged works by Britten, Shostakovich and Eisler.

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, whose reputation as the world's greatest orchestra of teenagers reaches far beyond the UK, and conductor Jaime Martin perform a trio of politically charged 20th-century works.

Hans Eisler's visceral choral revolutionary song kicks off the proceedings, followed by Britten's brilliant orchestral Sinfonia da Requiem, an unlikely pre-World War II commission by the Japanese government to mark the Japanese Empire's 2600th anniversary. Shostakovich's quasi-cinematic Symphony No 11, subtitled 'The Year 1905', vividly depicts scenes from the failed first Russian Revolution, long-celebrated as the Soviet people's initial, faltering step towards the establishment of a socialist state. The symphony proved an instant success in the Soviet Union at its 1957 premiere and in a superbly ironic twist it also won the Lenin Prize. Ironic because Shostakovich was covertly portraying another much more recent failed revolution, that of the brutally suppressed 1956 Hungarian uprising against Soviet rule.

Recorded at London's Barbican hall and presented by Martin Handley.

Eisler: Auf den Strassen zu Singen
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

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Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 'The Year 1905'

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Jaime Martin (conductor)

Photo 漏 Jason Alden

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Mon 13 Jan 2020 19:30
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Hanns Eisler

    Auf den Strassen zu singen, Op 15 for chorus and side drum

    Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Jaime Mart铆n.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Sinfonia da Requiem, Op 20

    Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Jaime Mart铆n.

  • Hanns Eisler

    Ernste Ges盲nge for baritone and strings

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI: HMC-902134.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 1.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 11 in G Minor, 'The Year 1905'

    Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Jaime Mart铆n.

  • The National Youth Orchestra & Jaime Mart铆n

    You fell as a victim

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 32, 'Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen'

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 18: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 15.

Broadcast

  • Mon 13 Jan 2020 19:30
    成人快手 Radio 3

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